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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

More Same-Same

Look at this -- another example of the use of stock photography on book covers -- which always interests me when I find these kind of things. I've read the one on the left, which is the UK cover of The Day the Falls Stood Still. I think it's the North American cover of the Alcott bio, which I haven't read (yet).

3 comments:

Great catch. I just posted one of these yesterday (I call them copycat covers) in my Cover Attraction meme. Would you believe the publisher of the second book left a comment on my blog, explaining this? Thought it might interest you what they said:

Thanks Sandra, I'd missed your post! Great discussion with the publisher contributing as well. I just wish larger publishers would spend a bit for more original design so there would be more variety - I know that people do remember books by cover image, we get requests at the library often for "that blue book with the angel on the cover" or some such.